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📚📚Regional #libraries play a crucial role in preserving, processing, maintaining, and promoting the intellectual heritage of communities, offering free and equal access to all. Libraries also preserve both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, through the collection, documentation, and digitization of personal testimonies and memorabilia, transforming them into sources of information, research, and education for both Greece and the wider world.

Reading Greece spoke to Paraskevi Choudalaki, Head of Libraries & Creative Activities Center for Children of the Municipality of Chania, about the libraries of the Municipality of Chania, the great wealth of #books and archives that are housed there, the main challenges they are faced with, and the prospects ahead.

Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Χανίων
Δήμος Χανίων - Municipality of Chania

📚📚Distinguished translator Εleana Ziakou spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges of translating Greek #literature into Albanian and vice versa, and the crucial role of #translators as cultural ambassadors fostering deeper understanding between peoples and cultures.

"Translators are the invisible hand that ensures the perpetuation of the author’s name and work beyond national borders. A world without translators would resemble the setting of the Tower of Babel, doomed to incoherence".